Sam Warburton admits he has little interest in returning to coaching after leaving his role under Wales coach Wayne Pivac.
The former British and Irish Lions captain stepped down from his position with the national team back in October, and was replaced by Gethin Jenkins ahead of the team's Autumn Nations Cup campaign.
Warburton had initially suggested that his decision was due to him not being able to find the time to dedicate to the job, but he has now suggested that his lack of enthusiasm for coaching was a big factor in his decision.
Speaking as a guest on footballer-turned-pundit Jamie Carragher's The Greatest Game podcast, Warburton said: "I'd finished my career and I was asked to coach straight away for the national team. So I went straight back into it.
"I never throught I'd be a coach. I'd never done any of my coaching badges.
"It's just not for me. In a nutshell coaching is just not to me. I really like the media side of it. You're almost like a coach in the media, though, aren't you."
Warburton was a pundit for Amazon Prime during their coverage of the Autumn Nations Cup and, amongst other things, was keen to offer his thoughts on Wales under Pivac, who at times has found himself under pressure after a difficult run of results in 2020.
It's a role he admits he's enjoying, and he insists it still gives him an opportunity to offer something to the game as a whole, comparing his work to that of Carragher and Sky Sports colleague Gary Neville, who have established themselves as two of the most highly-respected football pundits.
"You're trying to educate people," he added. "I've been watching football since I was four years old and everyone thinks they know the game.
"I've had people in rugby tell me about stuff and thinking 'you know nothing about rugby'.
"But listening to you guys it makes me think, 'oh my God, I thought I knew football but I don't know anything'.
"That's how I see my role in the media now with the rugby.
"Rugby's a complicated game and I just want to break it down and understandable to people who perhaps are casual fans. Some of them are rugby nuts who really understand it, but a lot of people don't get the game at that level.
"People actually want to learn about the game and I always think if someone can listen to me speak or break down a game. They might be like a youth coach for their rugby club. They might be an experienced coach at semi-professional level, but if they listen to something I've said and gone 'that's why they did that. I didn't realise', then I feel like I've done my job."
